SPECIAL EDITION
OF THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.
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mook. Thev are the Devon, Short Horn, Roan Durham and Red Poll. The former ;
has not been bred for milk as much as the Red Poll and some strains of the Short -
Horn, but when you do get a milk cow from it you have something hard to beat. !
I lean towards the Red Poll myself, not that I consider them any better than some
Tillamook County Dairymen have Gold Mines in their
strains of the Short Horn, but I prefer to breed off the horns instead of cutting I
Farms.
them, and they have a very gentle disposition. I am breeding into that stock and
most of my cows are inulevs.
Some years ago the principal strain of pure blood in here was from the Roan
If it was necessary to prove the success that is attending dairying in Tillamook )
Durham. I will mention two bands of cows that had more or less of this blood in
county, the Headlight could furnish hundreds of annual returns of individual dairy
them, as I had a lietter opportunity of seeing them than any others. They
men to prove this beyond the question of a doubt, but a few will suffice. W hat,
perhaps, is the most conclusive proof that the dairymen of this county are pros ( belonged to Messrs I. S. Elliott and B. H. Hathaway. Every cow it seems to me
was a walking creamery. Of course we did not have the Babcock test those days,
perous, wide-awake and making money is the increase in the number of cows thev
but I have an idea that the amount of butter they turned out satisfied the owners
make annually upon their farms, weeding out poor animals and substitut
on that score.
KILCHI8.
ing in their place cows which will produce the most butter fat. The increase in the
number of creameries and cheese factories of the county every year is also another
index as to the growth as well as the success that is attending the dairymen in
their money making industry.
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PROSPEROUS FARMERS.
Mr. M. W. Harrison is one of the largest dairymen of the county. He has a
farm of 1 HO acres and 75 cows. He sends his milk to the Tillamook Creamery
Company, and his returns show that he furnished that institution with 255.397
Supplied the Tillamook Creamery Company with 2,315,771
pounds of milk last year, which produced 10,261 pounds ot butter fat, for which
he received $2,194 14 in cash. In addition to this Mr. Harrison raised 45 calves,
Pounds of Milk.
5000 pounds of pork, 300 bushels of barley, 400 bushels of oats, hay for all the
stock, besides other farm products.
The Tillamook Creamery Company came in fora share of patronage last year
Mr. Sam Downs has 109 acres of land, 50 of which is cleared and into pasture,
being one of the baker’s dozen of creameries and cheese factories operating in this
the remainder being timber. He has 21 cows and manufactured and shipped his
country. The patrons of this creamery have reason to tie proud that their pro.
own butter to Portland—96 boxes, each containing 60 pounds of butter. His
duets have been handled so successful and in a conservative, business manner, re.
returns show he received in cash in Portland $1,102 for his butter.
) fleeting credit upon the creamery and a source of income for the patrons.
Every
Mr. J. Sanders came to Tillamook three years ago and bought of Henry Low
year shows that Tillamook county is forgeing ahead in the manufacture of butt«
ery the old Newcome place of 40 acres. He has 17 cows and furnished the cream
and cheese—and with butter and cheese for pureness, richness and superior quality
ery with 7K,119 pounds of milk, which produced 3052 pounds of butter fat, receiv
after it is manufactured it is second to none in Oregon. The milk received at
ing in cash for the same $625.75. Besides this he raised 4 calves, 2,000 pounds of
the Tillamook creamery during the year 1898 amounted to 2,315,771 pounds,
pork, hay for all the stock and some to sell, also vegetables and potatoes
which yielded 91,931 pounds of butter fat. When manufactured this produced
for the market.
17,3+8 pounds of butter and 192.512 pounds ofcheese, which netted the patrons the
snug sum of $18,615.20, averaging the butter fat at an average during the year
Mr. D. Fitzpatrick supplied the creamery with 51,463 pounds of milk, making
at 20 cents and 3 mill per pound. This makes a good showing for the Tillamook
2006 pounds of butter fat, receiving in cash $405 05.
Creamery, and speaks volumes for the integrity and industry of the officers and
managers of the Company in bringing about such satisfactory results, as well
as for the industry of Tillamook farmers who make dairying profitable. Webe-
DAIRYING IN TILLAMOOK.
lieve this average stands second to none in the county, and surely the directors in
their untiring effort for the good of the organization deserve great credit, and with
as good prospect for the comingseason it stands to reason that the out-look in
“ Not Another Country in the World that Can Beat Us,”
the dairying business, creameries and cheese factories of Tillamook county new
looked brighter. An institution like the Tillamook creamery is deserving of all
Says a Dairyman.
the co.o|>eration the farmers can give it, for it is to their own benefit that it
should have it.
In making n few remarks on dairying in Tillamook I will commence with the
The Oregonian, in commenting upon tne Tillamook Creamery Company, had
assertion that 1 <lo not believe there is any country in the world that can beat
this to say in its editorials:
us, and 1 think that this will be acknowledged bv all who have ever resided here,
“ Since dairying began to claim the attention of the farmers of Tillamook
but for the information of others 1 will give a few items to corroborate this
county, seven or eight years ago, an admirable showing has been made. The
statement.' I have before me a statement of my neighbor, Mr. Amos Vaughn,
county now contains over a dozen creameries and cheese factories, all said to Item
giving the results of his dairy of 12 cows for last year:
successful and profitable operation. One creamery company reports that during
Amount of butter sold..............
3.124 lbs.
1898 it handled more than 2,000,000 pounds of milk, making over 17,000 pounds
Average )>er lb............................
$ 0 19-87
of butter and 190,000 pounds of cheese, and that the farmers were paid upward oi
Average |>er cow........................
51 72H
$18,000 in cash. The news correspondent adds that “ quite a number of farmers
Amount cash received for same
$620 70
have averaged over $50 profit per annum from each cow. . . . It is probably
Eight head calves.....................
60 00
an error to say that ‘any cow yields a profit of $50 per annum,’ but there is cer
Pork...........................................
62 50
tainly a wide margin for net gain if an average cow will produce that sum, gross,
Total ...................................................................... $7+3 20
per year. . . . While our blithe Mr. Montgomery . is making his somber
This was from April 10th uutill February 2nd.
prophecies about 30 cent wheat, there is more liojie and promise and value in the
Mangolds (Golden Tankard) were fed in the fall with some little bran.
two-line statement that the ‘butter fat’ in the milk furnished the Tillamook
Now, in my opinion, this is pretty hard to beat in any country, but, of course, Mr.
creamery last year ‘ brought the farmer an average return of 20.3 cents |>er pound,
Vaughn is a mail who will not keep a poor cow. As soon as it fails to come up to
than in all the litters read and speeches made at last week’s political banquets.
his standard in amount of milk or test it has got to go.
I am not doing so awfully bad myself. I churn every other day and turn out
2+ rolls on an average, and I am at present saving the milk of 1+ cows.
THE LARGEST SAW MILL AND BOX FACTORY
All the grasses thrive here and an acre of rive» bottom will keep a cow.
In speaking of the different kinds of grass for pasture, the greater the variety
In Tillamook Coiinty is Operated at Hobsonville by the Truckee
th* better, but for a foundation give me orchard grass. I contend that it is the
Lumber Company.
peer of all of them. It is the earliest and latest, and will stand more pasturing than
any of them. Good pasture ot it and white clover will give more milk and last
The saw mill, box factory and general store of the Truckee Lumlier Comps’?
longer than any other variety, but, as 1 said before, the more varieties the better,
of San Francisco, at Hobsonv.lle, represents the largest and most imports’!
but build the foundation on orchard grass and white clover. To convince you that
single industry of Tillamook county, This company has operated here over tee
1 am correct in regard to mv favorite grass, and as to Tillamook's adaptability
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....... seventy
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. and yard „.L
J more in tbe
years, employs
about
in its mill
add .«
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many
to produce milk, I will quote von my experience in April (and it was the coldest
woods. Its saw mill has a daily capacity of 75 M feet, while its box factory
and wettest April I remember). 1 made Vglb. of butter per dav to the cow and two
planing mill, run in connection, manufactures 35 M feet daily. The product is
of them were heifers with their first calves. This was on pasture consisting almost
marketed at San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, requiring a regular line
entirely of orchard grass and white clover with no other feed but hav.
1 steamers for its transportation.
I-or hay 1 prefer red top. re.l clover, medium—lie careful you don't get hold of
I p to a short time ago the Truckee Lumlier Company confined its opera
the Mammoth, as you might as well cut salmon brush—and Alsike. Enough
tions here entirely to cutting spruce, but has lately remodeled its mill, so that it *
timothy might lie sown to hold np the clover, but that isall the use 1 have for it as
now an up to date fir mill, having all such modern machinery as band saws, gang
a milk producer, in fact. 1 believe that timothy straight will dry up a cow as
trimmers, etc.
surely as oat straw. You must remember that I am speaking of the river
The Truckee Lumlier Company prides itself on the quality of its product,
bottoms.
especially its band sawed lumber and finished flooring. Experts all agree there is
And now to the different breeds of cows; First, we will consider I no finer ever shipped to San Francisco.
t le Jersey. Of course it is n demonstrated fact that she is a butter cow.
The Truckee Lumber Company’s parent mill is located at Truckee, Califo™’*
but I do not think she is the cow for the majority of the settlers in Tilla ) I on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. While it is not run all the year round,
mook who have more or less land that makes first clnss feeding ground for ( like the Hobsonville mill, on account of the heavy snows, during the season it ’•
young stock, but is not suitable for milch cows. This land is useless to a man
run night and day and turns out immense quantities of boxes and lumber of n
keeping this breed, as the calves do not pay to raise, but if 1 did go in for them I
descriptions, which are shipped to all towns in the West, as far East as Denver.
would raise the Jersev straight. It is too much of a lottery to cross them. There
Colorado, and South to El Paso, Texas. The average output is twelve milb<’0
are four other breeds that are good milk stock and I think better suited to Tilla.
I feet |>er annum, of which over one half is manufactured into sash, doors and boxes
MONEY IN TEAT FUELING.